{"id":396216,"date":"2026-07-13T02:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/396216\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T02:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:33:08","slug":"off-duty-officer-fires-shots-at-robbery-suspects-in-long-beach-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/396216\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-duty officer fires shots at robbery suspects in Long Beach, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An off-duty officer shot at two alleged robbery suspects in Long Beach on Sunday, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shooting happened around 1:30 p.m. in the area of Bixby Road and Orange Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Long Beach police say two suspects approached the off-duty officer and tried to rob him. One of the suspects was reportedly pointing what appeared to be a firearm, while the other robbed the off-duty officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That&#8217;s when police say the off-duty officer fired shots at the suspects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The men fled, and it&#8217;s unknown if either of them was shot. The officer was not hurt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation into the incident is ongoing. Police did not immediately release a description of the suspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An off-duty officer shot at two alleged robbery suspects in Long Beach on Sunday, according to police. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132,239],"class_list":["post-396216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}